Chapter 574: The Burning Golden Tree

Elden Ring: I believe you're a ghost......

Although he could use the first fire to reopen the world, his world was not as decaying as the Black Soul World.

The world of black souls is already cornered, there are almost no normal and healthy creatures, and extinguishing the initial fire and reopening the world can be regarded as breaking and standing up.

But the Junction is different, although it is also declining, but it is much better than the Black Soul World, at least the sun in the Junction is still high in the sky, constantly emitting light and heat.

Day and night alternate, and the flow of the four seasons is still normal.

The premise of reopening the world is to return the world to chaos first, if he lets such a junction return to chaos, then wouldn't he really become the king of mad fire?

[Elden Ring]: Forget it, it's useless to ask, let's use the mad fire as a tinder, so it's safer to be afraid of unexpected things.

[Dark Souls III]: Cut, then you ask.

Ignoring a certain sand sculpture in the group, Xia Yu, the faded one, took a deep breath and jumped towards the bottom of the pot in front of him.

At the same time as he jumped, the bottom of the pot seemed to feel the power of the flames, which was originally just a pile of ashes and sparks, but at this moment, it suddenly ignited a raging red flame.

The Ash Extinguishing Flame is ignited, the flame of the giant evil god that can ignite the golden tree.

The Flame God is a god believed in by the giants, but in the war with the Golden Tree, the giants were defeated and the evil god gradually disappeared.

It is said that the evil god still exists in the body of the flame giant, but no one has confirmed it.

Xia Yu didn't kill the flame giant who stood in the way, after all, that giant could be said to be the last survivor of the Junction Giant Clan.

The mountain demon clan is a side branch of the giant, and they are not real giants.

In order to maintain the diversity of species in the Borderlands, he decided to spare the Flame Giant's life.

Of course, another reason is the evil god that the giants believe in, the evil god is also a god anyway, although he doesn't know if the evil god is still there, but he doesn't want to make trouble.

There was a sound of wind blowing in his ears, and Xia Yu, who was overlooking the bottom of the pot, opened his hands and greeted the red flames that were surging towards him.

As he greeted him, the flames wrapped around his body, reacting with the mad fire within him, and in an instant, the flames soared again, and he himself ignited flames.

[Dark Souls III]: The Salary King of the Ages! Witness!

Because after lighting the ashes extinguishing flames, he will be teleported to the Isle of Sky, which is the crumbling Fam Yazra.

So in order to avoid any accidents in the middle of the way, and he couldn't solve it in the first place, he turned on the live broadcast and was ready to shake people to save himself at any time.

[Dark Souls III]: The era of ancient dragons and giant trees is over, and the next is the age of fire!

[Dark Souls III]: Use the Flame Fist on the Golden Tree!

Elden Ring: You're enough, hey!!

Really, he's very dangerous here, this sand sculpture is still playing there, can you feel a little nervous!

Xia Yu, who was slandered in his heart, ignored the sand sculptures that swiped the screen, and quietly sensed the increasingly hot flames.

Then, at a certain moment, the flames suddenly condensed a little, turned into a pillar of fire and rose into the sky, and the golden tree in the background also suddenly ignited flames.

The flames ignited the gold, and the flying golden leaves turned into sparks, but the sparks did not shine much, for Death Rune had not yet been released.

It is not until Death Rune is released that the Golden Tree will completely change color.

Xia Yu's next target is to die Rune.

After the flames in the pot burned violently to the extreme, the powerful power of the flames broke through the space, and the cracks in the space that broke also took away the people in the center of the flames.

Before being taken away, Xia Yu had only one thought in his heart, the golden tree was quite far away from the flame cauldron, how did this ignite?

……

[Dark Souls III]: An unfamiliar ceiling.

"Strange ceiling...... Holy, there's no ceiling in this place. ”

After complaining casually, Xia Yu got up from the rough ground, and as far as he could see, he could see countless islands floating in defiance of gravity, with ethereal dust and mist, and flying dragons soaring in the sky, a scene of apocalypse.

"The air is also quite bad, but fortunately there is no feeling of lack of oxygen, and I don't feel altitude sickness."

Xia Yu observed the surrounding scenery, just looking at the tornado that seemed to never stop and the flying dragon that soared with the wind, he could know where he was at the moment.

The crumbling Fam Yazra, also known as Sky City.

Originally, it was the territory of the dragon clan, but because of the disappearance of the dragon god, the serious injury of the dragon king, and the slightest accident, the dragon king's city, Fam Yazra, gradually collapsed a long time ago.

The badly wounded Dragonlord is not dead, it is now sitting in the gap between time and space, the center of the storm, and it is said that it is the Elden King before the Golden Tree Age.

However, its gods are gone, and the mortally wounded king is still waiting for his god to return.

[Wolf]: This is not the real world, naturally there can be no altitude sickness, what are you thinking?

Elden Ring: Oh, that's right, what a dick!

[Wolf]: You █████

Xia Yu ignored the sand sculpture that was shielded from swearing, and his telepathy spread out, and soon, he sensed other life.

Orcs!

It's not the kind of astringent orc whose main body is humanoid, with cute beast ears and a furry tail, nor is it the astringent Fury of a humanoid beast.

It's the kind of terrifying beast that doesn't look astringent at all, it's completely alien, if anyone can talk to an orc with this kind of appearance and masturbate, Xia Yu can only respect the other party as a man.

Orcs with hideous faces are actually not a rare race in the entire borderlands, and in some underground caverns, you can see orcs who have returned to the wild.

To sum it simply, the orcs are the followers of the clan under the command of Gu Long.

With the ancient dragon clan, one is prosperous, and one is lost.

Now that the ancient dragons have declined, the collapse of civilization and the orcs have completely entered an era of crisis.

"Alas, I always feel a little embarrassed."

Feeling the orcs lying on the ground and gnawing on the bones of their predecessors, Xia Yu sighed and shook his head, in the former junction, orcs symbolized civilization and wisdom.

But at this moment, some of the orcs in Sky City are not much different from some of the orcs in the caves of the junction, and with the disintegration and destruction of civilization, the beast nature has returned to their nature.

It's okay if it's just the return of the beast, after all, it can continue to survive, but I don't know if it's because of the departure of the dragon god, the orcs without the protection of the gods are like Sky City, falling into an irrepressible collapse.

Not only have these orcs lost their intelligence, but their bodies have also begun to decay and crumble, which is simply sad and pitiful.

Xia Yu shook his head and suppressed the little empathy that suddenly appeared, instead of pitying the orcs here, it was better to release Death Rune as soon as possible.

At least that would allow these pathetic orcs to die, and not need to live so painfully and pathetically anymore.

Thinking of this, Xia Yu spread the wings of the furnace behind him, and instantly rose into the sky, flying towards the position of Death Run.

The Hundred Phases of the Furnace is one of the prayers of the ancient golden tree, which can form golden wings and soar into the sky.

In the past, life was mixed with each other and did not separate from each other.

Looking down at the collapsed Sky City from above, it can be seen that there are flying dragons flying along the storm everywhere, although these flying dragons also noticed Xia Yu who was also flying, but they did not approach it to death.

The dragon power on Xia Yu's body is no longer weaker than that of ordinary ancient dragons, so under the perception of the flying dragon, Xia Yu is a humanoid ancient dragon.

Of course, this was Xia Yu deliberately releasing his ancient dragon aura, because in addition to these flying dragons, Sky City also had several ancient dragons that could use red thunder.

He didn't want to waste time fighting the ancient dragons, and the number of ancient dragons was already small, if he really slaughtered all the ancient dragons, then there would be no ancient dragons in this world.

In the game, he can be a genocidal war criminal, but in the real world, he doesn't want to do it so ruthlessly.

As long as Gu Long doesn't come to provoke him, then he won't attack for no reason, and this is not the outrageous world in the game where even if you become the king of Elden, you will still be bitten by dogs and topped by goats when you walk on the road.

After flying over most of the collapsed Sky City, his destination was also there.

It was a Sky Temple in the center of Sky City, where Death Rune was sealed, and Death Rune's guardian was named "Black Sword" Marikas.

Marika is a shadow beast given to the gods by the supreme will, and Marika who was once a god wanted her shadow to be a seal of her destined death, but in the end, she betrayed the shadow.

As for what kind of betrayal? Anyway, it's not the kind of betrayal that there are people out there.

At the entrance to the temple hovered a dragon-clad tree guard, who was guarding the temple as a gatekeeper to prevent anyone from approaching the temple.

As the big tree guard of the initial opening boss, Xia Yu is no longer in his eyes at the moment, even if the other party is an upgraded version of the dragon costume big tree guard.

Xia Yufei thought about it in the sky for a while and decided to kill this big tree guard.

After all, he was going to fight with Marika later, and what if this big tree guard suddenly ran in and made trouble, so he had to strike first.

Thinking of this, Xia Yu took a deep breath, a red mist appeared on his body, and the illusory mark of dragon blood also lit up behind him.

In an instant, a crimson dragon head appeared above his head, and the dragon head was already faintly rotten.

In the next second, scarlet corrupt smoke erupted from the dragon's head, and the tree guards who were still patrolling and wandering were instantly drowned in the corrupt breath.

The corruption of Eggis, a kind of dragon prayer obtained through the dragon feast, is a high-level prayer that can show the power of "stepping into corruption" Eggis.

Coupled with the increase in the corrupt laws he obtained, it was just a corruption breath, and the Tree Guard couldn't do it in an instant.

The Tree Guard, who had been corrupted by corruption, forcibly raised his head, and before he could see who had attacked him, he planted himself from the horse.

The war horse under his crotch also swayed, and he was killed instantly.

"Don't blame me, who made us stand differently."

After killing the Big Tree Guard, Xia Yu shook his head lightly and muttered, then retracted his wings and fell, waving his hand to put away the armor of the Big Tree Guard and the armor of the war horse under his crotch.

It's loot, and you can't do without it.

After collecting all the things that should be collected, Xia Yu stepped into the temple along the entrance.

Feeling the breath approaching him, Marikas, who was dressed in the same style as Mongot, raised her head, her eyes fierce and wild under the coarse linen.

"O one who longs to approach the death of his destiny, I will not let it be stolen a second time!"

Even though Malika betrayed it, it still carried out its duty to protect Death Rune.

It seems that the shadow beasts are loyal to their masters, as is the case with the black sword Marikas, and the same is true for the half-wolf Blazer.

It's just that when Xia Yu approached, Marikas's eyes widened slightly, and his tone was a little incredulous and angry.

"Fader...... I didn't expect it to be you......"

"Why?!"

"How can there be so many why?" Xia Yu waved his hand to sweep away the dust that blocked his vision, and stared at Malikas in front of him.

He and Marikas actually knew each other, but at that time Marikas was still called Gurang, and his name was also the priest of the beast.

On the night of the conspiracy, when the stolen Death Rune contributed to the initial death of the demigods, they turned into dead roots, sprouting through the roots of large trees underground, and spawning throughout the Junction.

And the root of death is the origin that gave birth to the dead.

As the guardian of Death Rune, Marika naturally needs to be punished, so it suffers from hunger and thirst all the time, and can only be slightly alleviated by devouring the root of death.

In order to atone his sins, Marika re-became a Gurang, guarding the temple of beasts at the end of the east, making a pact with others to collect and devour the dead roots scattered around the world.

Incidentally, Marikas was first the "Beast Sacrifice" Gurange, and only after becoming Malika's Shadow Beast did he change his name to "Black Sword" Marikas.

The "Beast Priest" Gurang became Malika's shadow beast, and the "King of the Beasts" Therosius became Godfrey's prime minister.

It can only be said that the sacrifices and kings of the orc clan have been abducted by the gold clan, and it is inevitable that they will decline.

"Guranger, for the sake of our acquaintance, give me Death Rune, and I can still let you go."

Xia Yu waved his hand and took out the great sword of the hunting gods, and Marikas, who guarded the death of Rune, was definitely not weaker than the demigods, so the weapons used to deal with it could not be weak.

The Great Sword of the Hunting Deity is the holy sword of the Queen of the Night's Eyes who led the Apostles of the Divine Skin in the past and finally lost to Marikas, and can control the Black Flame of the Hunting Deity.

This sword was picked up by Xia Yu at the bottom of the Galid's Divine Grant Tower, and when the sword fell into the hands of a godskin apostle, he picked it up from the apostle.

Now the great sword of the hunting god is once again pointed at Marikas, which can be regarded as a duel of fateful reincarnation.

Only this time, the enemy that Marika faced changed from the Queen of the Night's Eyes to a Fader.

"Oh? It's actually this sword? ”

Marikath's muffled voice came from under the coarse cloth, and it recognized the sword, the holy sword of the Queen of the Night-Eyed Eyes, the sword of the defeated general.

"It seems that you insist on this, O Fader, and I will not spare anyone who dares to covet Death Rune."

Marikas took a stand as she drew her weapon.

Its weapon is a five-fingered sword, the body of which is made in the image of the five fingers of the beast, a symbol of bestowed wisdom.

In Fam Yazra, it was a short sword that only the High Priests could receive, and it was not only a weapon, but also increased the power of the beast's prayers.

Marikath was originally a beast sacrifice, so naturally there were many beasts praying, and the beast prayers that Xia Yu owned were basically learned from it.

However, at this moment, the two are about to start a life-and-death showdown. (End of chapter)